Gaps and pseudogaps in perovskite rare earth nickelates
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- Title
- Gaps and pseudogaps in perovskite rare earth nickelates
- Authors
- ALLEN, S. JAMES; HAUSER, ADAM J; MIKHEEV, EVGENY; ZHANG, JACK Y; MORENO, NELSON E; Son, J; OUELLETTE, DANIEL; KALLY, JAMES; KOZHANOV, ALEX; BALENTS, LEON; Stemmer, S
- Date Issued
- 2015-06
- Publisher
- AMER INST PHYSICS
- Abstract
- We report on tunneling measurements that reveal the evolution of the quasiparticle state density in two rare earth perovskite nickelates, NdNiO3 and LaNiO3, that are close to a bandwidth controlled metal to insulator transition. We measure the opening of a sharp gap of similar to 30 meV in NdNiO3 in its insulating ground state. LaNiO3, which remains a correlated metal at all practical temperatures, exhibits a pseudogap of the same order. The results point to both types of gaps arising from a common origin, namely, a quantum critical point associated with the T = 0 K metal-insulator transition. The results support theoretical models of the quantum phase transition in terms of spin and charge instabilities of an itinerant Fermi surface. (C) 2015 Author(s). All article content, except where otherwise noted, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
- URI
- https://oasis.postech.ac.kr/handle/2014.oak/35795
- DOI
- 10.1063/1.4907771
- ISSN
- 2166-532X
- Article Type
- Article
- Citation
- APL MATERIALS, vol. 3, no. 6, 2015-06
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